Preface

Solaris Administration Guide: Naming and Directory Services (DNS, NIS and LDAP) describes the setup and administration of the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS)
naming and directory services: DNS, NIS, and LDAP. This guide is part of
System and Network Administration set for the current Solaris release.

Note - This Solaris release supports systems that use the SPARC and x86 families of
processor architectures. The supported systems appear in the Solaris OS: Hardware Compatibility Lists. This document cites any implementation
differences between the platform types.

In this document these x86 related terms mean the following:

“x86” refers to the larger family of 64-bit and 32-bit x86 compatible products.

ZFS storage pool and file system creation and management, snapshots, clones, backups, using
access control lists (ACLs) to protect ZFS files, using ZFS on a Solaris
system with zones installed, emulated volumes, and troubleshooting and data recovery

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Typographic Conventions

The following table describes the typographic conventions that are used in this book.

Table P-1 Typographic Conventions

Typeface

Meaning

Example

AaBbCc123

The
names of commands, files, and directories, and onscreen computer output

Edit your .login file.

Use ls -a to list all files.

machine_name% you have mail.

AaBbCc123

What you type, contrasted with onscreen computer output

machine_name%su

Password:

aabbcc123

Placeholder: replace with a real name or value

The command to remove a file
is rmfilename.

AaBbCc123

Book titles, new terms, and terms to be emphasized

Read Chapter 6
in the User's Guide.

A cache is a copy that is stored locally.

Do not
save the file.

Note: Some emphasized items appear bold online.

Shell Prompts in Command Examples

The following table shows the default UNIX system prompt and superuser prompt for
shells that are included in the Oracle Solaris OS. Note that the
default system prompt that is displayed in command examples varies, depending on
the Oracle Solaris release.